Combined cane and table



(No Model.)

0. N. KUHL. COMBINED GANE AND TABLE.

No.4 450,603. PatenteaApr. 14, 1891.

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COMBINED CANE AND TABLE.

#SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,603, dated .April 14, 1891.

Application filed October 16, 1890.

T0 all whom t weary bolwcrlt:

Be it knownthat I, OTTO NICOLAUs KHL, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Altona, near Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful' Improvements in a Combined Cane and Table, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to a walking-stick or cane which is adapted to receive within its hollow interior the means for forming the leaf and stand or legs of a table,which, being connected to the ends of the said stick or cane, may serve for supporting drawings, playing-cards, or other articles.

To carry this invention into effect I make use of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a view of the combined cane and table in the state in which it is used as a walking stick; Fig. 2, a view of the cane, partly in sect-ion, with removed handle and ferrule. Fig. 3 is a similar view as Fig. 2 of the cane, having also the cap f at either end unscrewed; Fig. 4, a longitudinal section of the cane in enlarged scale, showing the mode of fastening the frame of the table-top and the legs to the corresponding end of the cane. Fig. 5 shows an end portion of the walkingstick as adapted for the reception of the bars forming the frame of the table-top or respect.- ive-ly the stand or legs of the table. Fig. 6 represents an end view of Fig. 5, with attached bars h h', Fig. 7, forming the frame of the table. Fig. 8 is a side view of the two bars adapted to form the legs of the table. Fig. 9 shows a portion of the table-top as employed in the present invention, and Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the t-able formed by the means heretofore mentioned.

Similarletters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

I/Vhen used as a common walking-stick or cane, the detachable handle b and ferrule care attached to the screw threaded metal bushings d at the ends of the hollow stick a. The hollow space of the latter is by means of the partition a divided into two compartments, which serve the lower one for the reception of the two metal bars g g', Fig. S, intended to form the stand, and the upper one for the reception of two cross-bars h h', Fig.

7, and two tie-bars i' i', which, together with a textile or other flexible fabric lo, connecting the said tie-bars, form when unrolled the leaf or top of the table. When the said top is to be placed within the hollow space of the walking-stick or cane, the textile fabric 7c is wrapped tightly around the bars h 7L after the latter are laid close beside one another. The ends of the metal bushings d are closed by the screw-caps f.

In practice the caps f are 'first unscrewed and the bars g -g and h It', forming the stand and frame of the table are to be withdrawn from the hollow space of the cane. The said barsV are provided, respectively, with central notches Z Z and m m in their opposite edges, so that the intersecting bars will interlock and radiatefroni a common center. The bars, thus connected, are then inserted in notches n in bushings d at the ends of the stick, and\" thereby attached to the same so that the caps f being screwed into position their projecting rims will enter notches 0 p of bars g g and h 7i. The said rims project into said notches to such an extent that lthe bottom of the same will come in a position flush, or nearly so, with the out-er edges of the corresponding bars forming the legs or the frame of the table-top, Figs. 4 and 6.

The shorter and stouter bars g g', forming the legs of the table, Fig. l0, are preferably provided at their ends with projections g, in order to increase. the steadiness of the table when placed upon an uneven ground. The longer but thinner bars 7i h', serving to give the necessary steadiness to the said leaf of the table, are, however, provided with small notches o at their fends and corresponding with the latter. The tie-bars it', to which are connected the ends of the said flexible or textile fabric 7c, are also provided with suitable incisions s in such a manner that the latter will engage with the said notches r at the ends of the cross-bars 7L 7i of the frame for the table-top, whereby the said fabric 7c will be stretched to the desired degree.

Having fully described my invention,what

I desire to claim and to secure by Letters Pat- 1. In a combined cane and table, the combination, with a stick adapted to receive within its hollow interior the material for forming IOO g g and 7L 7i', with the bushings dat the ends l the threaded bushings secured to the ends of the hollow stick, the serew-enpsj'and the thereof, the upper and lower sets of crosstop of the miele consisting' of a flexible 01 bars, the fabi-ie formlng thetable-top having 2o the lenfand stand of L table, of the Cross-bars i enne and table, comprising' the hollow stick,

5 tekliie fabric, and the tie-bers 2'1", silb'stanl end Cross-bars, and the screw-caps designed tially as set forth. N l io hold said upper and lower sets of cross- 2. In e combined enne and table, the coini bars rigidly in said bushings, as set forth. bination, with :L hollow stick, of the cross i In testimony that I olaim'the foregoing as bars g g and h h', provided with incisions l myinventionI have signediny name,in pres- 25 Io o 0 and p p', with the metal bushings d at l ence of two Witnesses, this 10th day of Sep- The ends of the hollow stiel adapted to retember, 1890.

eeive the said cross-bars, and the oapsf, eni gaging in the said incisions of said erossf bars, subsmntinllyas and for the purpose I5 specified.

3. The herein-described improved oom bin ed l o'r'ro NIooLAUs KHL. Witnesses:

ALEXANDER SPECHT, DIEDRICH PETERSEN. 

